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t UIIASING Till', DRESLAU. I 11.M.5. CLOUCKSTKR'S PMJCKV c performaxce. 1 Received 2f>. 11.5 p.m. Malta, August 2G. , 11.M.5. Gloucester, when near the lonian Islands. chased the German vonsel Breslau, before she took refuge ir the Dardanelles. The chase lasted foi two days and nights, the Gloucester firing at long range. She missed with tile lirst shot, but tin; swond carried away half of the ISreslau's funnel. The Gloucester repeated the operation, and cleared the ISrcslau's quarter-deck and put the aft gun out of action. Of tlu Ureslau's 110 shots, two took effect, smashing the Gloucester's boats. The pluck, little cruiser narrowly escapee, destruction by a torpedo from the Goeben. which suddenly came to the Brcalau's aid. (The Gloucester is a- light emiser ot 4800 tons. The Jircslau'* tonnage is 4700, and the Goeben is a Dreadnought of 23,ih)i) tons, having a speed of 2fl knots.) Rt'SSIAN VESSEL BLOWN UP. Paris, August 25. A telegram from Xisli states that a ! Russian monitor struck a mine near Orsova, on the Danube, and was blown up. The crew perished.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 27 August 1914, Page 8
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